House heads for another early-morning spending debate
The House is careening toward final passage of its massive budget-cutting measure with a short-term victory all but assured for Republicans - they’re just not sure when they can declare it.
With hundreds of amendments still on the docket, House GOP leaders have abandoned their initial goal of finishing the government funding bill by mid-afternoon Thursday. As House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) put it Thursday morning, the final vote on his bill slicing at least $61 billion from the budget would come “today, tonight, tomorrow morning, whenever it is.”